Technology Management Placement Review
at Unilever
Placement (10 Months+)
Project Management, Business Operations, Business Management
Kingston
Review Submitted: June 2025
Overall Rating
2.5 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
1/5
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Overview of Role
2.8/5
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Skills Development
3/5
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Support and Guidance
3/5
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Company Culture
2/5
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Overall Experience
1/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Mostly a comms style role. Involves aspects of business analytics and business engagement.
Lots of presentations and immediate problem solving needed for certain escalations. A basic understanding of the day-to-day running of the business
Lots of presentations and immediate problem solving needed for certain escalations. A basic understanding of the day-to-day running of the business
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Not really
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
1/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Data Visualisation and Storytelling - Presenting
Comms
External and Internal Stakeholder Management
Project Planning
Investigating
Feedback Management
Microsoft tool usage
PowerBi
Interview Skills
Media Editing
Business Mapping
Conflict De-escalation/ Resolution
Expectation Management
Proposing Business Solutions
Comms
External and Internal Stakeholder Management
Project Planning
Investigating
Feedback Management
Microsoft tool usage
PowerBi
Interview Skills
Media Editing
Business Mapping
Conflict De-escalation/ Resolution
Expectation Management
Proposing Business Solutions
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
2/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
3/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
3/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
I had an amazing manager who was incredibly supportive and kind.
She kept me on track and tried her best to keep me busy during my placement despite a company wide restructuring.
Sadly my manager was changed to a new grad who did not really know what he was doing and could not delegate work but tried his best.
She kept me on track and tried her best to keep me busy during my placement despite a company wide restructuring.
Sadly my manager was changed to a new grad who did not really know what he was doing and could not delegate work but tried his best.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
3/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
3/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Overall, almost everyone was really friendly, kind and easy to ask questions to. There were dedicated employee event teams and even wider team planned lots of team bonding and general social activities. Honestly an overall lovely bunch
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
3/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
2/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I did enjoy it quite a bit. I liked the social aspect a lot and the opportunity to meet new people.
However, the role itself felt like it did not really aid my development. I was expecting something more technical and with more responsibility but I did not get that due to the restructure. Everyone was scrambling to organise themselves and their team and I think in a way my role got lost in the noise.
Overall a good placement for someone who enjoys a heavily business facing role and is fine creating comms and media for staff but not a role I wish to build my career on.
However, the role itself felt like it did not really aid my development. I was expecting something more technical and with more responsibility but I did not get that due to the restructure. Everyone was scrambling to organise themselves and their team and I think in a way my role got lost in the noise.
Overall a good placement for someone who enjoys a heavily business facing role and is fine creating comms and media for staff but not a role I wish to build my career on.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
3/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
1/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
1/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
No
What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
Be very certain about what role you're going into and lower expectations.
For a tech role, there is very little hands on work with tech and more an understanding of tech that is needed to communicate effectively with business. You act as a middleman between the actual programmers and developers and the business as a whole, with heavy load on your communication skills and media building. If you're happy with that this role works well for you.
You don't need amazing grade but you need to be outgoing, good at communication and very motivated for a similar role.
For a tech role, there is very little hands on work with tech and more an understanding of tech that is needed to communicate effectively with business. You act as a middleman between the actual programmers and developers and the business as a whole, with heavy load on your communication skills and media building. If you're happy with that this role works well for you.
You don't need amazing grade but you need to be outgoing, good at communication and very motivated for a similar role.
